Putin peels off the masks of the ceasefire kabuki

Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.

The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.

As we peel off the successive masks, the last one standing inside the matryoshka is a woke transvestite tiny dancer: a Minsk 3 in drag.

Now cue to a “ceasefire” redux: President Putin in uniform only for the second time since the start of the SMO, dead serious, visiting the frontline in Kursk.

Finally, cue to the actual peel off operation: Putin’s press conference after his meeting with Lukashenko in Moscow.

Ceasefire? Of course. We support it. And then, methodically, diplomatically, the Russian President pulled a Caravaggio, and went all-out chiaroscuro on every geopolitical and military detail of the American gambit. A consumate artful deconstruction.

End result: the ball is now back in Donald Trump’s court. Incidentally the leader of the revamping-in-progress Empire of Chaos who does not (italics mine) have the cards.

The art of diplomatic nuance

That’s how diplomacy at the highest level works – something out of reach of American bumpkins of the Rubio variety.

Putin was gracious enough to thank “the President of the United States, Mr. Trump, for paying so much attention to resolving the conflict.”

After all the Americans also seem to be involved in “achieving a noble mission, a mission to stop hostilities and the loss of human lives.”

Then he went for the kill: “This ceasefire should lead to a long-term peace and eliminate the initial causes of this crisis.”

As in all Russian key imperatives – widely known since at least June 2024 – will have to be satisfied. After all, it’s Russia that’s winning the war in the battlefield, not the U.S., the – already fragmented – NATO, and much less Ukraine.

Putin was adamant on the ceasefire: “We are for it.”

But there are nuances; once again, it’s called diplomacy. Starting with verification – arguably the crux of Putin’s reasoning:

“These 30 days — how will they be used? To continue forced mobilization in Ukraine? To receive more arms supplies? To train newly mobilized units? Or will none of this happen?

How will the issues of control and verification be resolved? How can we be guaranteed that nothing like this will happen? How will the control be organized?

I hope that everyone understands this at the level of common sense. These are all serious issues.”

No: the collective EUrocracy, mired in demented Russophobia, does not understand “common sense”.

Once again Putin deferred, diplomatically, to the “need to work with our American partners. Maybe I will speak to President Trump.”

So there will be another phone call soon.

Trump, for his part, perennially floating on the clouds of bombast, already applied “leverage” on the negotiations – even before Putin’s detailed answer to the ceasefire kabuki.

He ramped up sanctions on Russia’s oil, gas and banking, allowing the waiver on Russian oil sales to expire this week.

That means in practice that the EUro-vassals and other assorted “allies” cannot buy Russian oil anymore without evading U.S. sanctions.

Even before that elements from Kiev criminal gang were begging for more sanctions on Russia as part of a “peace” plan. Trump obviously agreed by bypassing basic diplomacy once again. Only those with an IQ of less than zero can possibly believe that Moscow will support a ceasefire/’peace process” where it is sanctioned for attempting to end a war that it is actually winning in the battlefield – from Donbass to Kursk.

Sanctions will have to be at the heart of the possible U.S.-Russia negotiations. At least some of those thousands will have to go right from the start. Same for the $300 billion or so in Russian assets “seized” – as in stolen –, most of it parked in Brussels.

I annex, therefore I am

Putin’s Caravaggio ceasefire painting reveals that he has absolutely no interest in antagonizing the notoriously volcanic Trump, or to put in peril the possibility of a U.S.-Russia détente in the making.

As for Kiev and the EUro-chihuahuas, they remain on the menu, and not on the table.

Predictably, Western MSM, as a wave of toxic detritus hitting a pristine shore, is spinning that Putin said “Nyet” to the ceasefire gambit as a prelude to scotching any negotiations about it.

These specimens would not understand the meaning of “diplomacy” even if it was a comet piercing the skies.

As for the spin on the Brits “helping” the Americans and the Ukrainians to concoct the ceasefire gambit, that does not even qualify as a crappy Monty Python sketch.

The Brit ruling classes, MI6, their media and think tanks, simply abhor any negotiations. They are at direct, frontal war with Russia, and their plan A – no plan B – remains the same: inflict a “strategic defeat” on Moscow, as the SVR knows inside out.

The heart of the matter is the Black Sea. Vladimir Karasev’s analysis, as explained to TASS, is spot on: “The British have already entered the city of Odessa, which they view as a key location. Their special services are heavily involved there. The British do not conceal their desire to establish a naval base in Odessa.”

Odessa is part of the extensive menu of Ukraine’s resources already, in thesis, handed over to the Brits under the shady – and completely illegal – 100-year agreement signed between Starmer and the sweaty sweatshirt in Kiev.

According to the dodgy deal and its made in the shade footnotes, Zelensky already gave away to the Brits all sorts of control over minerals, nuclear power plants, underground gas storage facilities, key ports (including Odessa), and hydroelectric power plants.

On the ongoing minerals/rare earth saga in 404 – or what will be left of it – the Brits are in vicious, direct competition with the Americans. The CIA is obviously in the know. This whole thing will turn very ugly in no time.

A serious discussion running across informed circles in Moscow is that Putin by all means will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response. NATO of course will never agree to it. The final decision will have to come from POTU.S..

And that brings us to the ultimately pathetic role of NATO, graphically illustrated by POTU.S., in the Oval Office, gleefully expanding on his drive to annex both Canada and Greenland – both part of NATO – right in front of the sorry Dutch patsy Tutti Frutti o-Rutti, NATO’s Secretary General.

That amorphous slab of stale Dutch gouda cheese not only did not emit a peep about the annexations: he was gleaming like a baby in front of Trump.

That was NATO stripped bare: His Master’s Voice rules the way he wants it, and whatever he decides, even the “security” and territorial integrity of member states may be in peril. So go back to playing in your sandbox. Onwards to the next Putin-Trump phone call.

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Putin peels off the masks of the ceasefire kabuki

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  • Vod

    Pepe Escobar is a well known Russia supporter, this is a given. I agree with him on many points but he is bias on Russia leads him sometimes astray.

    This ‘ceasefire’ is a trick, a trap, the latest one the US and their European servants have laid down for Russia. Same kind of ‘ceasefire’ now unfolding in Palestine and Lebanon with ethnic cleansing and genocides on the daily menu.

    The “west” is of course totally silent, except when it is to arrest journalists, deport students and oppress all those who expose the genocide.

    However for Russia, everything seems to point towards Putin agreeing to the 30 days ceasefire trap.

    Trump has a mouth bigger than the grand canyon and can’t hold it for even 12 hours:

    Trump expects Russia to agree to Ukrainian settlement deal
    source TASS

    WASHINGTON, March 15. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump believes that the Russian side will agree to the terms of the Ukrainian conflict settlement.

    “We’ve had some pretty good news coming out of Russia,” he told journalists at the Joint Base Andrews near Washington before departing for Florida. “I feel that Russia is going to make a deal with us, I hope,” the US leader added. He did not specify what news he was speaking of.

    Then we have the European poodles who one after the other tell Russians that “they have to accept the ceasefire”.

    It really sounds like a mafia ‘offer you can’t refuse’.

    Then we have the drone attacks of this week deep inside Russia (including Moscow) and of yesterday :

    Dozens of Ukrainian drones shot down over Russia – MOD
    Source RT

    No retaliation so far, except few strikes on energy facilities, which is under the bare minimum regarding Putin’s “red lines”.

    The main goal seems to be the Kursk region, completely avoiding the other regions subject: Zaphorozie, Kherson and Donestk are still not entirely liberated. 3 years after…

    As for the Kiev regime, if anyone think this ‘ceasefire’ is a prelude to a real peace settlement, think twice:

    No election in Ukraine even if truce with Russia achieved – top Zelensky aide
    Source RT.

    So, not only this truce proposal is a joke but even the Ukrainians tell Russia and the world that it won’t change anything and it won’t lift martial law, which means it will serve them to regroup, get more weapons, more troops from the west maybe to attack Russia asap.

    In short, the same kind of BS truce Gaza and Lebanon got.

    It is as though everything is done to make sure Russia will never accept this fake ‘ceasefire’.

    Then they will be able to blame Russia for the war they want to wage.

    As for the ‘peace’ president, the zionist lackey Trump, he is now bombing Yemen with its UK poodles, while helping “Israel” killing more children in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank.

    Who still believes that this sad clown wants any peace in the world?

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  • Lasse Salminen

    Kurskin terroristit pidätettävä elinkautisiin rankaistuksiin. Myös kaikki
    ulkopuolisten maiden terroristit. Ei myönnytyksiä. Vaikutus on suuri vastaaviin
    vastaavin ulkomaalaisen terroristien lähetyksiin, sekä aseisiin.

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  • el buffoon poupon marx

    First of all, let’s debunk the Trump the “peace” president myth:

    Trump has ordered the bombing of civilian buildings in Yemen, killing 9 civilians and hurting more.

    But that’s not all,

    – “peace man” is also helping, funding and supporting “Israel” ethnic cleansing in the West Bank (ongoing since he was elected),
    – the resumption of the genocide in Gaza with UNICEF warning of children dying because of the zionist occupiers blockade and a massacre today in Beit Lahia .
    – “Local source said that Israeli drones targeted two vehicles that the victims were traveling in as they were trying to document the humanitarian relief effort in Beit Lahia.”.

    But that’s not all, “peace president’ handlers also bombed Lebanon today and killed, again. a Lebanese citizen.

    All that despite the “ceasefires” Palestinians and Lebanese made the mistake to sign with the US and their mad dog “Israel”.

    But that’s not all, “peace president” Trump is now backing the ongoing genocide in Syria, the US backed SDF forces have now allied with the terror group HTS who took power by ousting Assad.

    An article in RT describes the situation:

    ‘This isn’t war. It’s genocide’: Why the world is silent about massacres in Syria
    source RT

    Survivors of the violence against the Alawi, Christian, and Druze communities shares their stories with RT.

    What is the relation with Russia?

    Well, besides the obvious responsibility Putin had in the fall of Assad’s Syria, we can see what “ceasefire’ means for the US victims and targets.

    Does Russia really want to be treated like the US treat those who signed ‘ceasefire’ with them and their “allies”?

    And, as Trump can’t hold his big mouth more than few minutes, he already says :

    “We’ve had some pretty good news coming out of Russia,” he told journalists at the Joint Base Andrews. “I feel that Russia is going to make a deal with us, I hope,” the US leader added. He did not specify what news he was speaking of.

    Trump is really full of it. A used car salesman indeed.

    And now the ultimate proof that this ‘ceasefire’ is a trap:

    Russia ‘must’ accept ceasefire deal – Macron
    RT

    On Friday, following talks with UK PM Starmer and Zelensky, Macron demanded that Moscow accept the proposed deal.

    It’s really the kind of “offer they can’t refuse’ from the mafia. The fact that they are all aligned also expose the ‘rift’ between the US and Europe for what it is: show business.

    Of course, Trump has already increased sanctions, resumed weapons delivery to Ukraine and is menacing of more if his Russian target dares to refuse the “offer they can’t refuse”.

    One thing is clear, Trump, like all the other US presidents serves zionism first and is NOT a peace maker but a warmonger.

    In the mean time, while Russia does the minimum, that is bombing energy facilities and moving into villages left by the Ukrainians in Kursk oblast, they haven’t enforced the once Putin’s “do not cross red line” of massive bombings deep inside Russia.

    This week the west and their Ukrainian proxies bombed deep inside Russia twice, killing civilians in Moscow and they did it again yesterday.

    To make sure he will be on top of coming negotiations, that would be the time for Putin to strike real hard on decisive targets to teach the west not to take his red lines for green traffic lights.

    Or maybe remind them of the existence of the Oreshniks.

    If what happened with Minsk 1 and 2 and Syria can serve as history lessons, I fear the worse in the coming days.

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